10 tips to prevent diabetes11/17/2014 10:54:05 AM0
In conjunction with World Diabetes Day, Metro Online Broadcast spoke to experts Datuk Dr Khalid Abdul Kadir and Dr Shereen Goh on diabetes in Malaysia.
Recent years have seen an alarming growth in the number of Type-2 diabetes cases in South-East Asia and about one in five adults in the region now suffers from the disease.
Diabetes is not to be taken lightly as it is associated with a plethora of conditions such as high blood pressure, abnormal cholesterol, fatty liver and high blood sugar and more.

Datuk Dr Khalid Abdul Kadir (left) and Dr Shereen Goh (right)
“Type-2 diabetes, in particular, is closely linked with central obesity (also known as ‘pot belly’ or ‘beer belly’), so a person who is not centrally obe…